Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

ShagNastii · 05-01-2009 10:00pm

Really bad story but I once saw a women pick the sh1te out of a nappy and put it back on the baby again

seanybiker · 05-01-2009 10:00pm

One of the lads in me old local used to im into the chipper on his way home and ask for a frozen burger because he had buns and an oven in his own house. Sometimes he would ask just for the buns. Bloody neck on him like a jockeys bollox . Funny though.

CDfm · 05-01-2009 10:01pm

my ex-es mother on Chriostmas decided on a non-materialist christmas.

She gave everyone a single floating candle that came 6 for a pound at the pound store.:o

rednik · 05-01-2009 10:01pm

In work one day I saw a bloke reusing a tea bag. I thought it was a one off until somebody told me he does this every day.:eek:

sillymoo · 05-01-2009 10:04pm

rednik wrote: »

In work one day I saw a bloke reusing a tea bag. I thought it was a one off until somebody told me he does this every day.:eek:

Maybe he likes it weak

sunnyjim · 05-01-2009 10:05pm

View Profile wrote:

Used to work in a bar. There was this one tight bastard who would always ask for his pint of Heineken filled right to the brim, i.e. no head at all.
If it was served with the standard 4cm head he would send it back saying "I asked for a PINT of beer."

C0Ck.

Using a standard Guinnes pint glass, a 4cm high head would be roughly 113ml. Considering the pint is 568ml, thats roughly 20% of the pint as head.

In other words he's dead right to send it back, and you must possess **** bartending skills.

And no way is 4cm head the standard...:rolleyes:

badabinbadaboom · 05-01-2009 10:08pm

sunnyjim wrote: »

Using a standard Guinnes pint glass, a 4cm high head would be roughly 113ml. Considering the pint is 568ml, thats roughly 20% of the pint as head.

In other words he's dead right to send it back, and you must possess **** bartending skills.

And no way is 4cm head the standard...:rolleyes:

let the games begin!!!!!

Rusty Cogs 08 · 05-01-2009 10:09pm

The 'head' on a pint of beer is never as thick as the head on a pint of Guinness. About the only pint you'd get with no head is Bulmers, if I got a beer with zero head I'd send it back (as I would with Guinness) and ask for a proper pint.

(did I walk/run in to that one ?)

View Profile · 05-01-2009 10:10pm

Apologies. Typo. mixed my m up with my c. Meant to read 4mm!

Pyr0 · 05-01-2009 10:13pm

Man some of these stories are shocking, they're the type of stories you'd say "Are you ****!ng serious ?" to the stingy people involved. Seriously.

sunnyjim · 05-01-2009 10:15pm

That would make sense - I was picturing one of those really badly pulled pints that take an hour to settle, still leaving half of the pint glass filled with head :pac:

I was a lounge boy who became a bar man for 2 pints... I was subsequently demoted after disaster no. 2

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2009 10:19pm

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Really, must remember that next time I'm too stingy to pay. Was it o2 that used to just send the slightly creepy "call me" ones then?

must have been. that does sound creepy alright, you'd be afraid of what would be on the other end of the line. like getting a video call from a private number

FlutterinBantam · 05-01-2009 10:20pm

Knew a fella got short taken on a beach walk, dumped a load in the dunes, verrry messy, used a sock to wipe his hole and took it home with him to wash it"""

€1.99 for 3 pairs in Dunnes!!!

:eek::eek::eek:

bandit197 · 05-01-2009 10:21pm

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I hate mean people.

My favourite was a friend of a friends Dad who had two TVs on top of each other. Because one had no sound and the other had no picture :pac:

Thats not mean, thats genius!

Shacklebolt · 05-01-2009 10:21pm

It was actually vodafone who sent 'Call Me'. O2 were more mannerly and had 'Can you call me please?'.

LEIN · 05-01-2009 10:22pm

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Knew a fella got short taken on a beach walk, dumped a load in the dunes, verrry messy, used a sock to wipe his hole and took it home with him to wash it"""

€1.99 for 3 pairs in Dunnes!!!

:eek::eek::eek:

Did you have to travel in the same car home?

Quackles · 05-01-2009 10:23pm

ShagNastii wrote: »

Really bad story but I once saw a women pick the sh1te out of a nappy and put it back on the baby again

That could be more like 'caught out without a spare nappy' than stingy. Not that I've ever done it

I knew someone who removed light bulbs and picture hooks from his house before he moved. Reminds me of that Richard Prior film.. "We're taking it with us!!"

OPENROAD · 05-01-2009 10:23pm

briantwin wrote: »

my dad walked into my neighbours house one time and there were sheets of toilet paper all over the sitting room. The wife had bought 3 different kinds and was seeing which brand was the best value (ie which had more sheets per roll). I'm going to assume she would disregard such things as quality and texture.

As a matter of interest do you know which brand was the best value

View Profile · 05-01-2009 10:27pm

Another amusing one in this (hotel) bar was this middle aged women who would bring in her own tea bags.
She would then kindly ask the staff for a pot of boiling water and a cup. Then spend hours in the lounge sipping away at no expense.

BoardsRanger · 05-01-2009 10:28pm

Huggles wrote: »

One of my mates is pretty bad. When we all go for a meal together she will take a calculator out and calculate her portion of the meal down to the last cent.

In fairness, it can be alittle unfair if someone is only getting a cheap main course and others are getting fillet steaks plus starters and desserts.

Being a tight focker myself, late one night whilst staying in a hotel i was craving some coke- it was something like €10 for a tiny bottle. Drank it anyway, went across to the shop the next morning and bought a bottle, then filled up the glass bottle, put the lid back on and put it back in the minibar

:D

LEIN · 05-01-2009 10:33pm

BoardsRanger wrote: »

Being a tight focker myself, late one night whilst staying in a hotel i was craving some coke- it was something like €10 for a tiny bottle. Drank it anyway, went across to the shop the next morning and bought a bottle, then filled up the glass bottle, put the lid back on and put it back in the minibar :D

Lol i think i would have done the same.

€10 for a bottle of coke where the fook where you staying?

BoardsRanger · 05-01-2009 10:38pm

Damo9090 wrote: »

Lol i think i would have done the same.

€10 for a bottle of coke where the fook where you staying?

Some posh hotel in Belgium! And that was about 3 years ago, probably €12 now!

Sharpshooter · 05-01-2009 10:41pm

My bro , whenever he's out with mates for a drink, is always the first to put his hand in his pocket , and keep it there.:(
My dad reckons he still has his Communion money:D.

Sorry bro.:P

afatbollix · 05-01-2009 10:53pm

years and years ago when i was a young one.... we went trick or treating at holloween...

went into a house... knocked on the door and the 6 of us said trick or treat.. he gave us 10p
it was about 1995 so 10p wasent worth a 10er...

i went to my mother who was at the gate to the house she looked at it and laughed.. then threw it back into the drive way....

while we were walking away he was looking for it!!!!! on our way back he was still looking for it!!!!

prick..

df1985 · 05-01-2009 10:59pm

waiting for the train with a mate one day, he asks me do ive any spare change because he didnt want to break his 2euro coin!!!

jimmay · 05-01-2009 11:06pm

Was workin in Ilac there Xmas week. Had been goin into O'Briens 3 times/day min...smoothies/sambos/coffees etc...girls knew by name. The first two days I had my wallet with student card with me and asked for the ol student discount (ok I'm not the stingey one

)
Anyway by the 3rd day I didn't bring my student id with me...this particular Asian girl -who must have served me at least once the day before - said "have you got your student id?" (most of them don't even look). I said "no". She said "no discount". I laughed I said "hello I'm in here all the time" (winked at one of the other girls).
NO student discount...wow I had a good mind to leave the sandwich (including an extra €1 charge for 1 extra slice of ham) there but was too hungry!
So tight her arse squeaked when she walked

Hogzy · 05-01-2009 11:06pm

Im a cheapskate, In Mahon Point cinema in cork i never pay the disgracfully high prices for popcorn and a drink €9 so i go to Tesco (in the same building) and buy a big bad of Manhattan popcorn and a bottle of coke for €3

But before ye go critiscising im a student so im allowed to do things like thta:D

Alanstrainor · 05-01-2009 11:07pm

Here's a good one, waiting at a bus stop outside a shop, all my friends were organising change for the bus, and one of the lads goes to me, "do you have 50cent", i was like, sure, then he goes into the shop and buys a pack of polo fruits!!! I was like wtf!! The cheeky fúcker. I then proceeded to take said polo fruits off him.
Btw, he had bus fare plus a wallet full of notes.

newmills · 05-01-2009 11:12pm

Jesus lads will you slow down - nearly have the pen worn out writing down all these handy hints sorry tight arse stories!!:D

James Forde · 05-01-2009 11:20pm

anto-t wrote: »

years and years ago when i was a young one.... we went trick or treating at holloween...

went into a house... knocked on the door and the 6 of us said trick or treat.. he gave us 10p
it was about 1995 so 10p wasent worth a 10er...

i went to my mother who was at the gate to the house she looked at it and laughed.. then threw it back into the drive way....

while we were walking away he was looking for it!!!!! on our way back he was still looking for it!!!!

prick..

thats not bad at alll!! one year we got a briquette!!

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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